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NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project: Security and Geospatial Services. Andy Turner http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/. Overview. Introduction Work Package 3.2 Work Package 4.1 Feedback. Introduction.
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NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project: Security and Geospatial Services Andy Turner http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/ SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Overview • Introduction • Work Package 3.2 • Work Package 4.1 • Feedback SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Introduction • The NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Science (NeSS) Project • http://www.ncess.ac.uk/services/ • 2007-01-01 to 2009-12-31 • Delayed start… • 7 Major Work Packages • Security and Geospatial Service Work undertaken in Work Packages 3.2 and 4.1 SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Some Key People to Mention • Rob Proctor • Research Director • June Finch • Project Coordinator • Taken over from Mike Daw • Rob Allan • e-Science Expert • Xiaobo Yang • Portal Maintainer • Pascal Ekin • Geospatial Services and Grid Expert SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Work Package 3.2:Security Authentication and Authorisation • People • Rob Proctor • Wei Jie • Deliverables • 3.2.1 Report: Review of Grid Authentication and Authorization Technologies • 3.2.2 Report: User Requirements • 3.2.3 Implementation? SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Work Package 4.1Grid Enabling Simulation Models • Part done by PolicyGrid and MoSeS • MoSeS People • Mark Birkin • Andy Turner • Paul Townend • Junaid Arshad • OGC GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
MoSeS NeSS Deliverables • 4.1.1 GLS Client • 4.1.2 Deployed GLS • 4.1.4 Geographical Mapping Service • 4.1.5 Workflows SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Feedback • Questions/comments? SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Acknowledgements and Thanks • Thanks to NCeSS researchers, collaborators and funders. • Thanks to all involved in the OGC GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment (especially the UK part of the consortium) • Thanks Paul Townend for work on a GLS Client which is to be delivered as part of Work Package 4.1 • Thanks Junaid Arshad for ongoing work on Security and delivery work on Work Package 4.1 • Thanks Wei Jie for sharing reports and presentation material for Work Package 3.2 • Thanks to all involved in eResearch for improving our hardware, software and data resources so that we can all do our bit to better understand and plan our future. • Thank you for listening! SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Authentication Issues • Adopting Shibboleth as the authentication infrastructure • Build federation for eSS community and define user attributes • Integration of Shibboleth with legacy authentication systems • Integration of Shibboleth with Sakai portal SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Security Challenges • Simplicity • Avoiding complicated security procedures like authentication, delegation, etc • Usability • Providing web-based one stop environment to access a variety of social science resources like datasets, tools, services, wiki, blogs, etc. • Interoperability • Making legacy security systems interoperable • Manageability • Relieve administrator and service providers workload • Granularity • Providing flexibility for service providers to make fine-grained authorization for various resources SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008
Authorization Issues • Design & implement a fine-grained authorization infrastructure for grid-enabled datasets • Attribute-based fine-grained access control for OGSA-DAI b • ased social science datasets • Using Shibboleth, VOMS and PERMIS as authorization engine SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008